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Mahoney wrote:but I always felt like I wasn't getting the proper magic stuff, I felt like I was only getting the stuff the magicians wanted me to see.

i get what you mean, even the old Marvin Magic sets i used as a 'youngster' didnt have the right feel... then, thanks to WalMart, i got hooked on Bike cards, originally bought to PLAY cards with, not for tricks.

How old were you

Phew... i thought it was going to be the virginity question and i would have had to admit...

i was about 10, grandad taught me the french drop. then i got a magic set, i think it was paul daniels.

Saw my first trick at 4, learned my first trick at 6.

But 18 is not late at all; if you are didicated you can pretty much never be late.

Best wishes to all and their magic,
~Magically Dave

5 when I got a magic kit, that was my sisters present but it ended up being mine. But not until I was 10 did I really get into it.

I got my first magic kit when I was about 9, and all but never used it. Got a svengali deck when I was about 13, and never used that. Then I bought Derren Brown's book TOTM about 6 months ago, loved the magic section in that, and went on from there. I was (and still am) 18, and just working through RRTCM and Oz Pearlman's Born To Perform at the moment. Maybe it's later than most, but I still want to be as good as I can be.

I will never forget when Father Christmas brought me a magic set at my Grandmas house when I was about 25 eeer I mean 5 . i have allways loved magic tricks and performimg them and done them on and off for ever but never seriously and never rememberd any tricks, i have just caught the bug again at 36 and consider myself an absolute beginer, I love street magic with everyday objects but due to hand injuries I find it real hard to handle cards or palming coins without it looking real obvious. I have been practicing 'Quick Trick' from Penguin (a simple card trick) but it will take me ALL day to learn the real simple slieghts.

8, first paid gig at 11, never looked back....18 is certainly not too old.

Became interested in it when i was about 5/6 and bought Paul Daniels magic set

Then i took magic real seriously when i was about 13 and have been doing it almost 4 years now, turning 17 soon, (then i can drive )

I believe I was 19 when I first got my hands into..

sorry wrong forum...

I was 25 when I got into magic, just last year.. I quit just over one year later.. and now keeping my fingers crossed for a comeback at some point